flexdll does not give the -L flag to MSVC link.exe
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Description
Original issue: https://github.com/dbuenzli/tsdl/issues/96#issuecomment-2438579933
The relevant snippet:
+ flexlink -x64 -merge-manifest -stack 33554432 -g -o src\dlltsdl_stubs.dll SDL2d.lib src/tsdl_stubs.obj -LY:/source/tsdl/_opam/share/dkcoder-c/debug/lib/pkgconfig/../../lib -LC:/Users/beckf/AppData/Local/Programs/DKMLNA~1/lib/ocaml\flexdll
+ link -lib -nologo -machine:AMD64 -out:src\libtsdl_stubs.lib SDL2d.lib src/tsdl_stubs.obj
shows that flexlink ... -Lxyz does not get translated to link ... /LIBPATH:xyz (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/reference/libpath-additional-libpath?view=msvc-170).
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Start by locating flexlink's handling of -L arguments and the code that assembles the MSVC link command shown in the issue. Reproduce the Windows command if possible and trace how SDL2d.lib and the object file are passed to link.exe. Done means each flexlink -Lxyz argument is represented as /LIBPATH:xyz for MSVC.
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- Tech stack
- ocaml
- Domain
- build-system
- Issue type
- Bug
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- 1-2 days
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